Apparently this is some kind of Oprahism here. It makes me enraged when people misuse the language.
Anyway, Senator Jeff Flake, living up to his last name, was all over the place regarding the Brat hearings. He voted to have the confirmation approved in the Judiciary Committee yesterday, but then, after being confronted by a couple of women in the elevator, pushed to have an FBI investigation.
This is what happened to Flake:
In the morning it emerged that former president George W Bush has been advocating for Kavanaugh with wobbling senators, including Flake, in recent days. Kavanaugh was a former top aide in Bush’s White House.
It seemed to have worked. At 9.25am, Flake announced that he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh, virtually guaranteeing that the nomination would advance to the full Senate. Without evidence to corroborate Ford’s story, he explained, “our system of justice affords a presumption of innocence”.
Five minutes later, Flake faced the consequences of his decision. On his way to the Senate judiciary committee, he stepped into a lift, only for two survivors of sexual assault to stop the door sliding shut. Ana Maria Archila, 39, warned him: “What you are doing is allowing someone who actually violated a woman to sit on the supreme court.”
Maria Gallagher, 23, tearfully challenged the Arizona senator: “I was sexually assaulted and nobody believed me. I didn’t tell anyone, and you’re telling all women that they don’t matter, that they should just stay quiet because if they tell you what happened to them you are going to ignore them.”
Trapped in the lift, Flake switched between looking at the women and looking at the floor for nearly two minutes. Gallagher pleaded with him to look her in the eye. “Don’t look away from me,” she said. This visceral moment, captured by TV cameras, appears to have gone some way to pricking Flake’s conscience.
On a somewhat related note, the prep school atmosphere of spoiled brat rich kids provided fodder for drinking and gang rape.
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